ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,127, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud based interface for protecting and managing data stored in networked storage systems" was invented by Anu O. Mangaly (Bangalore, India), Deen Dayal Pareta (Bangalore, India), Sumeet Kumar Sethy (Bangalore, India) and Khaja Hussain Surajuddin (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing storage is provided. One method includes initializing, a storage service user interface ("SSUI") within a cloud manager user interface ("CMUI"), the SSUI enables a storage service operation selected from a backup operation, a restore o...